CATTLE-DRIVING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 78, 26 December 1907, Page 5

CATTLE-DRIVING.

MR. GINNEIi. i ;/\ A DISAPPEARANCE... ? (EIEGHArH—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COFTEIGHT. . 7 London, December 23. '/ Iγ. L.\Ginnell, Nationalist member! .of , House 'of Commons ! for .'North- Westtli, iadvocate, 'whose st was recently ordered by the Land rt, has disappeared, ■ ■■• ... ' . I.- . . . "■ .. «; arrested. ? Fugitive was;in disguise. ;■,. '•'-.•;■ ;; (Rcc.'Dec. a.m.), .'. London, Deqomber 25. 'r. Ginnell met and/addressed at Kiln'a number of cattle-drivers who had released from Kilmainham Gaol. , the - courso .* of his address ho warned police, that there would bo" bloodshed;,if • attempted to arrest him..- Ho promised surrender. .Afterwards; ho resumed adisse'in, which he was travelling, and es--Od. ', y y\n:- ' -W-^ , ''..,,:;.■ .-'' 36 was arrested, later at .Mullingar, and •a removed to.Kilmainham Gaol. ■The following is an extract from a i letter tritton .to., a friend, in.. New Zealand by the' wner of,a well-kno.wn estate-in County Clare, "ho has-been an'-absentee; 'and who is de'ribed by:.the recipient of the letter as being prspnally. really lilted by her tenants." , 'Yes, things are bad over'here; outrages j V week; .taking .Counties Clare and Liinek together)'; and , there have been several iths. But not a Single conviction ' can ■be 'Our own farm, Crussagh, ,was fired into, Jid .1 close the shutters again and plaster lp all' chinks, just as we did in the;bnd days though:! don't think ,our lives are in danse'r).-'■••. ; ••.■ ■.'■:■ . t '.-" '?.-: •. .' ".. . ■" ' '."There is a-'boycott; against" grazing, -and ".nyone who' takes any has a 'cattle drive' astitntcd against him. That moans that a and of men go and'drive off bis cattle, and ;-is as much.las his ,life is worth to put iom'bhek,. again. Wβ havo a hundred acres V. good grazing iland we cannot let, as no Iβ. dafes to take it. •' .. '. * ■• . r . "Of course, we are.trying to sell to our tents, but ;ao far they won't come to torms, ;d month makes the-prospect blacker, ir o«ti member remarked in the House the her daythat he knew tho blackguard at and ' was sure 'he 1 - fired in at the ndow himself, on purpose,.tq.make 'a,scene 1 "Did you road about Lord Ashtoivn ? His iuse is near herej jiist over the Galway order.",. (It> was:at; Lord Ashtown's shooting ■at, Glcnahiry. Lodge,. that the explosion ocrred.'in August. ■ Nationalists allege that rd J Ashtpwa himself caused or,,connived at i explosion, but the Court rejected this deace when his Lordship sued the local: auirity. for compensation, and- gave judgment ? Lord ,for £1-10. A, Mrs. Walsh 1 hor' son now stjind charged with. inciting tain persons.to blow up tho building.) •